Regardless of seeing Mount Nice FA’s file 12-game win streak come to an finish on Sunday, Head Coach Theodore “Tappa” Whitmore believes his gamers deserve large credit score for his or her performances within the Wray & Nephew Jamaica Premier League.
Final season’s finalists went down 1-2 to hosts Harbour View FC which was their first defeat since October and simply their second all season.
First-half strikes from Rohan Brown and Oquasso Chong made the distinction for Harbour View.
Mount Nice ended the sport with 10 males after midfielder Jahshaun Anglin was despatched off for his position in an incident with a spectator. Daniel Inexperienced’s strike within the ninth minute of second-half stoppage turned out to be a comfort for Mount Nice.
Whitmore mentioned their opponents have been higher on the day, however was glad together with his crew’s efforts.
“Even in the present day I used to be happy with the crew, not simply the video games passed by,” he mentioned.
“You need to give credit score to Harbour View. I didn’t suppose we have been complacent. We did some good things, we didn’t create lots of goalscoring alternatives however we obtained probabilities to get again within the recreation. We occurred to attain late however [I] can’t knock the Harbour View crew, they needed it greater than us,” the Mount Nice coach defined.
The 2023 JPL champions Mount Nice stay prime of the desk on 52 factors, whereas Harbour View transfer out of the relegation zone to twelfth on 19 factors.
Harbour View Assistant Coach Damion “Stew Peas” Stewart believes his crew can go on a run to keep away from relegation after beating the league’s finest crew.
“Right now we got here out combating and that was the bottom of the victory. We got here into the sport to win the sport, we didn’t come for a degree as a result of we all know the place we’re within the league so we have to decide up factors, particularly at residence,” he mentioned.
“What [the win] says about my crew is that we’re able to doing it so we simply have to consider in ourselves and stand up the desk,” Stewart added.
9 of Mount Nice’s gamers are set to affix the Jamaica Reggae Boyz native camp on Tuesday forward of their two pleasant internationals in opposition to Trinidad and Tobago, beginning on Thursday.
Head Coach Steve McClaren watched the sport from the stands on the Harbour View Stadium.
Whitmore, the previous Reggae Boyz midfielder and head coach, needs his gamers to impress on worldwide obligation like they’ve achieved at membership degree.
“It’s only for them to go on the market and symbolize themselves nicely. They only have to go on the market and play the sport, present what obtained them there and simply get pleasure from it,” he mentioned.
— Daniel Blake
